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armoury

noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈɑɹməɹi/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɑːməɹi/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, also, countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A collection of weapons and materiel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A place where arms are made.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Heraldry.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a place where arms are manufactured

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: armory, arsenal

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: foundry, metalworks

7

noun

Meaning 7

a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: arsenal, armory

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: military installation

8

noun

Meaning 8

all the weapons and equipment that a country has

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: arsenal, armory

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: armament

9

noun

Meaning 9

a collection of resources

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: armory, inventory

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: resource, resourcefulness, imagination

History

Etymology

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: arsenaal — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Albanian: armëtore — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Armenian: զինանոց (zinanocʻ) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Bulgarian: арсенал (arsenal) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Catalan: armeria — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Esperanto: armilejo — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Finnish: asevarasto — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • French: arsenal — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • German: Rüstkammer — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • German: Waffenkammer — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • German: Waffenlager — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • German: Waffenarsenal — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • German: Waffendepot — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Hungarian: fegyvertár — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Italian: armeria — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Italian: galleria d'armi — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Latin: armamentarium — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Māori: whare huata — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Mon: တိုက်လဝဟ် — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Norwegian: arsenal — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Old English: wǣpnhūs — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Pali: yuddhabhaṇḍāgāra — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Pannonian Rusyn: оружарня (oružarnja) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Pannonian Rusyn: арсенал (arsenal) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Polish: zbrojownia — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Polish: arsenał — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Polish: cekhauz — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Portuguese: armaria — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Portuguese: arsenal — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Russian: арсена́л (arsenál) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Russian: оруже́йная пала́та (oružéjnaja paláta) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Russian: цейхга́уз (cejxgáuz) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Russian: арме́рия (armérija) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-airm — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Slovene: orožarna — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Spanish: armería — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Swahili: ghala ya silaha — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Swedish: rustkammare — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tagalog: sandatahan — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tagalog: taguan ng armas — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tagalog: armori — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tibetan: གོ་ཁང (go khang) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tibetan: གོ་མཛོད (go mdzod) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tibetan: མཚོན་ཆ་ཁང (mtshon cha khang) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tibetan: གོ་ཆའི་ཁང་པ (go cha'i khang pa) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Tibetan: གོ་མཚོན་བཟོ་གྲྭ (go mtshon bzo grwa) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Ottoman Turkish: سلاحخانه (silâhhâne) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Ukrainian: зброя́рня (zbrojárnja) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Ukrainian: арсена́л (arsenál) — place where arms are kept, an arsenal
  • Finnish: vaakunaoppi — heraldry
  • Finnish: heraldiikka — heraldry
  • French: armoiries — heraldry
  • German: Wappenkunde — heraldry
  • Italian: arme — heraldry